DSE Booth Preview Time February 24, 2018 by Super User For the last couple of years, at least, Sixteen:Nine has allowed exhibitors at Digital Signage Expo to provide previews of what people will see at their stands at the trade show. I have slightly tweaked the form and it is ready to go for 2018. As in the past, if you are an exhibitor, you …
Sweden’s Smartsign Touts 20% Growth In 2017, And Reach All The Way To Down Under February 23, 2018 by Super User The Swedish CMS software firm Smartsign has pushed out interesting numbers about its efforts to broaden the customer base – noting that three years ago 90% of business came from home, and now 50% comes from outside Sweden. “We are especially happy about this, and are gaining more and more shares of the markets. We …
What Are The Largest Digital Signage Networks, Globally? February 22, 2018 by Super User What are the largest digital signage networks in the world? I got that question the other day, and I did not have a particularly solid, well-informed answer. A decade ago, the big networks might have had 10,000 end-points and were run by entities like lottery corporations. But these days, the largest networks might have 5x …
LEDs Create Faux Stained Glass Ceiling In Luxe Mexican Department Store February 21, 2018 by Super User The centerpiece of a $300 million reno job at the largest department store in Latin America – Al Palacio de los Palacios in Mexico City – is a full ceiling LED display. It’s meant as a budget-friendly and totally changeable alternative to a more traditional stained glass ceiling. “Al Palacio de los Palacios is arguably the …
Photos: T-Mobile’s LED-Rich Michigan Avenue Flagship February 21, 2018 by Super User I was in Chicago on Tuesday, one stop in a series over the next few weeks, doing an industry overview talk to end-users for Samsung’s display team. The company has a road show going, called the Resolution Tour and I’m the outside speaker for the days., talking about stuff like data-driven signage. Next one is …
Photo: STRATACACHE, Scala Hold Americas Sales Summit For 65 February 21, 2018 by Super User STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel sent me a photo from this week’s sales meetings in, I think, suburban Philly, where Scala is based. STRATACACHE is based in Dayton, OH but flying into Philly would be a lot easier. The meeting is the 2018 sales summit for North and South America, and involves about 65 people, he …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Joaquim Lopes On 4YouSee And The Latin American Digital Signage Market February 21, 2018 by Super User I have traded emails with Joaquim Lopes for at least couple of years now, and he has been telling me about his company 4YouSee and its efforts providing software and services to the Latin American digital signage market. He was at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, and when we finally …
UK Digital Billboard Campaign Visualizes Cyber-Crime In Real-Time February 19, 2018 by Super User This is a terrific, very different way to use real-time data to drive home a compelling message for a brand – in this case a UK insurer that wanted to make small businesses aware of cyber-risks. The digital OOH campaign for Hiscox Insurance visualizes in real-time attacks on a designated “honeypot” server that would typify …
Looking At DSE 2018’s Floor Map, And Barely Seeing The Big “Outsiders” February 17, 2018 by Super User There are extremely varied opinions on what the presence of companies like Google, Adobe and Microsoft mean to the digital signage industry. On one hand, there are people who see these kinds of companies, from outside the formal business, as the ones who will eventually take over. That’s one of the takes German digital signage …
DSE Mixer 2018 Now Sold Out February 16, 2018 by Super User It took about 50 hours to sell out the 2018 version of the annual 16:9 DSE Mixer. If you procrastinated or just flat missed the ticketing window, there is a wait list function on the registration site, which is here … Some people do drop off, and I usually find double entries here and there, …
